Books in the A Public Culture book series

A special issue of 'PUBLIC CULTURE', this volume of essays explores the experiences and political economies of globalisation in various locales.

How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? This title deals with these questions.

A special issue of 'PUBLIC CULTURE', this volume of essays explores the experiences and political economies of globalisation in various locales.

Offers a collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. This volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging.

To think in terms of 'alternative modernities' is to admit that modernity is inescapable and to desist from speculations about modernity's end. Modernity is global and multiple and no longer has a Western 'governing center' to accompany it. This collection approaches the dilemmas of modernity from transnational and transcultural perspectives.

How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? This title deals with these questions.

This title addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism - ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society - is simply the universalism of a Western particular.

Contains essays that include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in Johannesburg, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique's capital.